Optima Awards

Recently, we have had to delay our OPTIMA assemblies. We will be in touch regarding new dates once restrictions have been lifted or eased.

Rewards

We know that students respond well to positive acknowledgement, not only through major awards but for small successes and actions in the classroom and playground. At PBC, we have various informal ways of rewarding students. In the classroom, teachers may hand out small prizes. More formally, teachers distribute OPTIMA Rewards, small tickets to acknowledge students being safe, respectful or a learner. Teachers will sometimes send home OPTIMA postcards to let parents know that their children have had a special achievement or success. At least 550 of these more formal rewards have been distributed so far this year, helping to create a positive, productive learning environment.

Planning for Success

We have already reached the mid-point of Term 3 and students are currently receiving feedback on their first rounds of assessment. It is valuable to support children to look for ways to improve, so they might reach their OPTIMA goals, recorded in their Student Planners. Are they on track? If not, what is it that they might do differently in order to achieve their goals? 

Assessment Calendars

Parents are reminded that the assessment calendar is now published on the PBC website. Students and parents should all make careful note of these important dates.

Exam Timetables

Exam timetables and schedules for Years 10, 11 and 12 will be published on the school website shortly: https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/curriculum/testing-and-assessment  

• Year 12 full shutdown all of Week 9 and 10 (6 to 17 September) for Mock exams and Applied Assessment. Specific arrangements are being organised for Tweed students.
• Year 11 full shutdown Week 10 (13 to 17 September)
• Year 10 full shutdown Tuesday to Friday of Week 10 (13 to 17 September)

Note:

As External exams will commence at 9:00am, PBC will have the same start time for Mock exams. For consistency and due to the vertical nature of Care roll marking the following arrangements will occur:

• All end of Term 3 exams will commence at 9:00am for Years 10 to 12
• Senior Care Roll marking classes will not run in Weeks 9 and 10 of term
• Period 1 teachers will read notices and give messages, and attendance details will be collated on Period 1 data

Assessment Policy

The senior assessment policy is published on the school website.

If students are absent for an exam they must contact their teacher and provide a medical certificate (allowances will be made for border restrictions).

A reminder that all assignments are due at 9:00am on the due date and that teachers are instructed to make a judgement on the evidence, which is available at this time. Late assignments are not accepted.

Students are reminded to back up their work via USBs, emails or cloud storage as computer malfunctions and losing assignments are not grounds for an extension.

Year 10

SETP – Year 11 (2022) Subject Selections Completed

Thank you to the students and their supportive parents for engaging in our SETP process this year to ensure that each and every one of our students will start their Year 11 studies in the correct pathway. In addition, thank you to the Senior Team Mentors who gave up their time to conduct these phone interviews. It was a credit to our staff, students and parents on their ability to adapt to our current environment to complete this process. With numerous staff and students working and learning remotely from NSW, we came together as a team to ensure that every student can succeed.

If your student has not selected their subjects online, if you could not attend an interview to finalise your student's subject selections or indeed, if your student will not be returning to PBC next year, please contact Jason Cross at jcros40@eq.edu.au.

Engagement at School

The compulsory participation phase in education or training starts when a young person stops being of compulsory school age (16 years of age) or completes Year 10. Many of our Year 10 students may have already entered the participation phase of school as they have already turned 16. During this phase, a young person must participate in an eligible option if they are not working full-time. An eligible option is provided by learning institutions such as state schools and non-state schools, universities, TAFE institutes or registered training organisations. Students are required to engage in learning when enrolled with an educational institution. At PBC SHS engagement is considered to be:

• Attending all scheduled classes on time
• Completing all draft and final assessments on or before the due date
• Applying themselves to set tasks to the best of their ability at all times
• Attending school each and every day in full school uniform

Our school attendance target is 92%; this includes both explained and unexplained absences. We thank you for your support and I look forward to working with you and your student/s to ensure that they are set up for success beyond our school gates.

Year 10 students are reminded that they are much better off commencing a school-based apprenticeship and traineeship (SAT) in Year10 than in Year 11. Please see Ms Shreeve in Y block for more information regarding SATs.

Year 11

Year 11 students will finalise Unit 2 in shutdown during Week 10 of this term 13 to 17 September.

Moving forward Year 11 students will commence the summative units for ATAR in Term 4 of this year and will have their first assessment for Unit 3 in the last week of Term 4. This will be a full shutdown in the week of 22 to 26 November.

A reminder that all students must have passed a Unit of English and Maths by the end of Unit 2. Students that do not meet this requirement will have to complete Unit 1 or 2 again in 2022 to be eligible for the QCE.

Year 12

Year 12s will be sent a cumulative report of their results for Unit 3 and 4 this week. This will be the last report that year 12 students will receive from PBC as final exit level of achievement and results are determined by the QCAA.

The QCAA no longer mails out certificates and results to students at the end of the year. On 18 December they will provide a digital copy of results into each students’ QCAA learning account.

All Year 12 students should by now have logged onto their QCAA learning account in the QCAA student portal. This is accessed via the myQCE website https://myqce.qcaa.qld.edu.au/index.html.

Please check that your student has completed this. They have been reminded on many occasions and sent emails regarding this but we can see that there are still some students that have not yet registered.

The QCAA has also updated the schedule for External Exams due to the change of the Brisbane Show Holiday affecting exams. This means that Health Education, Music and Economics are scheduled as the first exams on 22 October.

To access the External Assessment timetable please visit the myQCE website:

https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/senior/assessment/external-assessment/timetable

VET News

Gold Coast Trades College

The following courses are starting in Term 4 and open to Year 11 students that have not used their VETis funding:

Cert II Horticulture - NEW COURSE!

Cert II Automotive

Cert I Construction

Cert II Electrotechnology

See attached flyer for more information about Cert II Horticulture

Gold Coast Trades College is also offering students in Years 10-12 the opportunity to partake in a “try a trade” program. The 4 week program gives students the opportunity to try different trades before enrolling into an official course. Some of the trades students will be introduced to are surfboard shaping, painting and decorating and bricklaying. Express your interest through the QR code on the below flyer:

School Based Traineeships Available

New exciting traineeship opportunities are available in the Pathways Centre Y Block for Year 10’s. Job boards will be updated regularly with new positions. Students can collect a registration form and apply now. 

Get paid while gaining a qualification when doing a school-based traineeship and earn up to 8 QCE points!! A variety of new traineeships are on offer with a focus on business, hospitality, retail, sport and tourism.

City Venue Management: Miami Pool & Helensvale are looking for 6 new school based trainees, Lifeguarding, customer service, swim teaching… If you would like to be part of their team please apply via the link https://www.cvmacademy.com.au/traineeships

Aleeda Australia at Burleigh Heads Are you looking to learn skills in the fashion industry, assist with producing some leading brands of clothing and swimwear Aleeda are is recruiting for Clothing Production Assistants; 4 x Casual (full-time, Part-time & School hours) Clothing Production Assistants skilled or unskilled (learning) roles or traineeships. Register your interest by going to the QR code on below flyer.

Hospitality and Business Traineeships:

• Hidden Gem Café Tugun
• Niche & Co Tugun
• Boost Juice Elanora
• Fuel Bakehouse Currumbin
• The Little Store - Currumbin Eco Village
• Nobbys Surf Club
• California Tacos Burleigh
• BSKT Café Mermaid Beach
• Palm Beach Bakery – 8^th Ave
• Down 2 Earth Organics Café Palm Beach
• Sean Scott Gallery Burleigh
• The Pantry Burleigh
• Alleygators Currumbin Rugby Leagues Club
• Maries Pizza Tugun and Palm Beach stores
• Coffee Club Burleigh Stocklands
• The Original Bakery Tugun
• Wendys the Pines
• Brumby’s Bakery the Pines
• The Paddock Bakery Burleigh
• Yiros Shop Burleigh
• Guzmen Y Gomez Burleigh
• Pattysmiths Burgers Palm Beach
• Seeds of Life Robina
• Soul Origin Robina
• Crema Espresso the Pines & Coolangatta
• Third Base Palm Beach
• Paperbark Café Burleigh
• Dominos Tugun
• Ground Café Coolangatta
• KFC – Palm Beach, Mermaid Beach & Robina
• Double Barrel Kitchen Mermaid Waters  
• Coming Home Co Robina Kitchens
• Garden of Vegan Burleigh hospitality and cookery focused

Cert 3 Early Childhood – A Headstart Learning & Little Scholars Burleigh and other local centres

Cert 3 Hairdressing – Local Salons in Coolangatta to Broadbeach

McDonald’s are hiring: apply via these links:

Tugun: https://smrtr.io/4LXdX

Palm Beach: https://smrtr.io/4RX8W

Robina Central: https://smrtr.io/4JSRD

Burleigh Waters: https://smrtr.io/4LXbK

Nerang: https://smrtr.io/4NCmw

Elanora: https://smrtr.io/4LXbg

Reedy Creek: https://smrtr.io/4LXcb

Robina Food Court: https://smrtr.io/4X7bv

Shanes Scapes Elanora: Offering School based and Full time landscaping apprenticeships. Local business who specialise in landscaping, paving & retaining walls

If you want to work outdoors, this is the apprenticeship for you. Email resume to Shane to apply info@shanesscapes.com

Made Barber and Barista Tugun: Looking for a keen, enthusiastic apprentice barber who is friendly and willing to learn the art of barbering. Salon also has a coffee shop and may also be looking for a second trainee for coffee. Applications welcome for immediate start, email Britt to apply: madebarberbarista@hotmail.com 

School based vacancies links:

Ignite Education: https://www.ignite.edu.au/job-vacancies/

Aurora Training Institute please visit their vacancy page: http://www.aurora.edu.au/schools-program/

Prestige Staffing Solution vacancies, Please visit this link for more opportunities: https://prestigestaffingsolutions.org.au/job-board/

Cabin Crew – Aviation Australia: Want to become an airline steward? One-day event from 9:00am-2:30pm and the students will learn more about the role of a Cabin Crew member, practice opening aircraft doors, descending down aircraft slides and going in the pool with real aircraft rafts. Course available through Aviation Aust, apply via this link: https://aviationaustralia.aero/one-day-cabincrew/

School Leavers should check the following links for fulltime employment opportunities

https://www.goldcoaststudentjobs.com.au/

http://srajobs.sarinarusso.com/Vacancies/

https://www.busyatwork.com.au/support-jobseekers/jobs/

https://www.megt.com.au/job-board

https://www.mrael.com.au/index.php/your-career/vacancies

https://novaskill.com.au/jobs-available

There are more opportunities on the job boards. Please come into Y Block to register. 

Love your current job? Would you like to turn it into a traineeship? Come to the Pathway centre and let’s see if we can create a traineeship for you in your current role. 

The Pathway Centre is open before school and first break to apply for any of the above positions.

Congratulations to: 

• Will Taylor completed Cert 3 business traineeship with AAA Comet Gas – RTO Aurora Training
• Paris Love completed Cert 3 Business traineeship with Hidden Gem Café – RTO Aurora Training
• Katrina Morgan completed Cert 3 Business with Seed of Life – RTO Training Evolution
• Lacey Muller completed Cert 3 Business with Subway Robina – RTO Novaskill
• Kai Kelly completed a cert 3 business traineeship with Gold Coast Regional Basketball Association and Training Evolution
• Jed Walter commencing as an Australian School-Based Apprentice with GME Building & Constructions Pty Ltd for a Cert 3 Carpentry
• Beth Seidenkamp signed up as school based trainee with Coming Home Co Robina - MAS National/MRAEL 
• Zax Jessup: one of the school based trainees at Palm Beach Surf Club has received some great feedback this week. PBSC reports that Zax is thriving, and mastering every department we train him in. His latest challenge was to help launch our new raffle night, and he has been outstanding. He is on the microphone promoting, and drawing the raffle as well as setting new records for ticket sales each week. He is without doubt the best trainee we have had in my time here. Congratulations Zax!

Sonia Shreeve - Industry Liaison Officer

Click the links below to hear the latest from PBC’s Wellbeing Team.

Junior Secondary Guidance Officer

Attached is the latest article from our Junior Secondary Guidance Officer Anna Willis.

Senior Secondary Guidance Officer

Read the attached article for the latest information targeted to senior students of careers and pathway information.

https://pbc-shs.eq.edu.au/support-and-resources/guidance-officer

School Based Youth Health Nurse

Attn: PBC Students! PBC's School Based Youth Health Nurses are back on campus from Monday 23 August. Students can contact Ms Vanessa Bradley and Ms Laura Baressi directly via email if they wish to make an appointment or you can arrange at Student Services in D Block. You can also arrange an appointment by texting your first name, date of birth, and school to 0428 683 735.

Email addresses are:

Ms Vanessa Bradley - vanessa.bradley@health.qld.gov.au

Ms Laura Barresi - laura.barresi@health.qld.gov.au

Dear Parents/Caregivers,  

From August 2021, Palm Beach Currumbin SHS will be using a new process for sending reminder notices to parents, caregivers, and customers with overdue invoices. Reminder notices will sent periodically when an invoice becomes overdue.  

If you have provided us with an email address, reminder notices will be sent to your nominated email address.  

If you have not provided an email address, reminder notices will be posted to your nominated postal address.  

If you are unable to pay your invoice before the due date, or you have a query about an invoice you have received, it is important that you contact us before the invoice is due for payment:  

Email: finance@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au 

SRS Fees 

SRS Fees to list the instalment dates: 

1st Instalment – Friday 12 Feb Term 1 - OVERDUE 

2nd Instalment – Friday 7 May Term 2 - OVERDUE 

3rd Instalment – Friday 30 July Term 3 - OVERDUE 

Make payments the quick and easy way using BPOINT. Visit www.bpoint.com.au/payments/dete, follow the prompts or phone BPOINT on 1300 631 073. 

Parents/caregivers experiencing financial difficulty can email Finance on  Finance@pbc-shs.eq.edu.au.  

Payment plan options are available including Centrepay -a service to families whereby periodic payments can be made to the school or Direct Debit via credit card (monthly). Paperwork is available from the Finance Office to activate either of these plans. 

For Internet banking please use the details below: 

School’s Bank Account: PALM BEACH CURRUMBIN SHS General A/C 

BSB Number: 064-404 CBA Branch Burleigh Heads 

Account Number: 00090303 

Reference/Details: Record both Student ID AND the reference Code to ensure your payment can be recorded correctly. (Reference Code = ITEM BEING PAID FOR e.g.: 2021 SRS8 or 2021 ACEX10) 

Finance Office Window Operating Hours 

Over the counter payments can only be accepted between 8:00am and 1:00pm on Tuesday to Thursday. Alternatively, you can make payments via BPOINT from your invoice or statement or Direct Deposit. CLOSED Mondays & Fridays 

Alternative payment options include BPOINT and Bank Transfer, details found here  

QParents 

Parents – have you registered for QParents yet? 

Are you using QParents to stay in contact with our school and to access information about your child’s schooling? 

If you haven’t yet registered for QParents, register now. 

You can provide your 100 points of identity documents for registration online through QParents, or in person at your school. 

If you have limited identity documents, or experience difficulties registering, please contact your school for help. 

QParents is a great way to stay informed about what’s happening in your child’s school life 

Saver Plus  

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